Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:15:44 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: growfs and soft updates Message-ID: <20080116181544.787f2d17@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080116174455.H1425@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <478DCC6C.8010605@mbnet.fi> <478E15F3.7090809@mbnet.fi> <20080116174455.H1425@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:48:44 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > growfs is for people that like challenges ;) > > i have to use it growing 800GB filesystem to 1400GB, finally (after > patching it a bit) i did it, but root directory was destroyed (no > idea why). all subdirs appeared in lost+found so it wasn't a big > problem then+i've got zero sized file in lost+found that i was unable > to delete until i took off all strange flash with chflags. > > but i did it ONLY because i had no way to back it up. Personally I don't think it's worth the risk, unless the data is disposable like a squid cache. What I normally do is create a new partition and symlink things into it.
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